Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall began her career as a journalist with the Wyoming Eagle in Cheyenne. During her 20 year banking career, she wrote extensively for The American Banker, Bank Marketing Magazine, Trust Marketing Magazine, and other major industry publications. The American Bankers Association (ABA) published Barnewall’s Profitable Private Banking: the Complete Blueprint, in 1987. She taught private banking at Colorado University for the ABA and trained private bankers in Singapore.

Sunday, December 17, 2017

FBI, Feminist, And Political Legacies

https://newswithviews.com/fbi-feminist-and-political-legacies/

Dec 17, 2017

Legacy.

What is it?

It’s an inheritance… a
heritage or a birthright. We all leave one behind us when we depart this
world. Actually, we leave more than one legacy behind us. There are
personal legacies… what kind of friend have you been? There are professional
legacies… what kind of employee or employer have you been? There are
creative legacies… and parental legacies, marital legacies, etc.

This year as we approach
Christmas and the Christian New Year, it is more important than usual to think
of the legacies we leave behind.

Why is it more important
than usual this year? We are going through a generational change – and it
is not pretty.

As power gets passed
from my son’s and daughter’s generation (my generation passed the power baton
to our children years ago), we are watching our failures as parents establish
themselves as generational standards of behavior – or, in many cases, a lack of
standard. Equally, today’s generation (my kids and yours) can see what
they did right as they watch their children assume political, social, familial,
and professional responsibility for the world. Unfortunately, it gives me
the heebie-jeebies to think of Millennials running anything, let alone the
world.

Legacies apply only to
individuals, not groups. If a group’s legacy is negative, it is because
of the negativity of the individuals who rose to power within that group.
The group’s individual members enabled their success. Legacies are the
exclusive property of individuals.

For example, the legacy
of those who have chosen to be Democrats for many years says, based on the
achievements and objectives of that group, you support abortion through the 9th
month. I am glad that is your legacy and not mine. You support
socialism rather than capitalism. You support the elimination of borders
for our great nation… though any halfway intelligent person recognizes that
borders define the nation and without them it cannot exist… and perhaps that is
your objective. You support sanctuary cities where those who enter our
nation unlawfully are entitled to more consideration in our courts, our welfare
offices, our schools and colleges, our health care system, than citizens who
have worked their entire lives to support the building of those things.

That is your legacy if
you are a Democrat… that and the open hatred you spew about the man who was
elected by your fellow citizens to be President of the United States. You
see, the hatred doesn’t just hit Donald Trump. It extends to those of us
who voted for and still strongly support him. You would rather destroy
your nation than accept his victory over your crooked as a dog’s hind leg
candidate, Hillary Clinton.

You accept and applaud
the violence of mobs in the street when the violence is directed against
President Trump and are so stupid that you do not realize when you destroy
respect for the Office of the President you are destroying citizen respect for
the nation… a nation on which you are dependent if you are to have a
good, happy and stable future. Such naïve behavior can only exist when
people reject the idea that their legacy is the result of their own choices.

Will the Millennials who
are inheriting your mess remember what you have done with gratitude and
affection and for the happy future you are providing this nation? Is
it one in which they can take pride? Or will they curse you for the
debt, the immorality, the lost history and indoctrination rather than
education? It will take them years to learn the truth – but they will
learn (eventually and whether or not they want to learn).

If you are a Republican,
you have two choices: You are an establishment Republican who, much like
Democrats, willingly support any moral compromise that strengthens your own
position of power at the expense of the average person you are supposed to be
serving. If names like Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Corey Gardiner (R-CO),
Paul Ryan (R-WI), John Thune (R-SD), Bill Kristol (Publisher, Weekly Standard),
and all of the others who went to opulent Sea Island to discuss ways they can
make President Donald Trump fail come to mind, you understand what I’m saying.

Or, you’re a
conservative Republican who supports our Constitution, the Rule of Law, and our
populist President. In that case, your political legacy is the
Constitution, truth, and the Rule of Law. Too, our legacy will be that of Donald Trump's because of our support.

The establishment
Republicans are actually worse than the amoral Democrats and their legacy will
be one of a small group which arrogantly believes their few biased minds know
better than American voters what is good for the people. They are worse
because they are traitors to the very thing that has given them the opportunity
to gain access to the power they so easily abuse. They are disgusting and
will one day pay a horrific penalty for their behavior.

Again, your actions are
not taken just against the President. Rather they are taken against all
of us who support him… millions of us to a handful of you. What arrogance
you have – and how badly you wear it.

“But you don’t know this
or that about Trump. Because of who we are and what we do we know trhings… and you
must believe we are doing what we think best for the nation.” They may
say something similar. And, to a degree, they may be right. They
may know things we don’t know which might change our minds if we knew them.

That doesn’t change the
fact that we, the voters of America, are entitled to enjoy our right decisions
and pay the penalty for the wrong ones we make so we can learn from them.
All we need to do either is the truth. Because of your duplicity, even if
you know things we don’t know, we will not have that opportunity because you
won’t tell us the truth. What does that say about you?

A small group (by
comparison to the total population) does not have the right to determine the
best path for the millions who will have to pay for whatever outcome may result
from your carelessness. That is your legacy… a personal legacy for each
of you. Your names will always be affiliated with Sea Island and what
many of us consider treasonous behavior.

That same principle
applies to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA). J.
Edgar Hoover left a legacy, didn’t he? It involved using the nation’s
primary law enforcement agency to gather dirt on anyone and everyone who could
influence the direction of the American government and he did not hesitate to
threaten them with it. Look how that’s turned out. That’s his
legacy.

How sad to see the FBI
lose the trust of the American people. President Trump may tell the
graduating class of FBI agents that he loves law enforcement and he’s got their
back, but most of the people will have a bit of disagreement with him about his
Justice Department and how well it is being run. They also disagree with
law enforcement’s abuse of power.

If I were writing a
novel, I would have a Senator named Jeff who is part of the Never-Trump group
of Republicans and I would assign him the responsibility of being the first
United States Senator to come out and publicly support this populist
non-politician. I would assign him the task of becoming personally close
to the candidate (who no one expects to win… I’d choose him because if the
candidate doesn’t win the nomination he is such a popular Senator he won’t lose
his seat just because he supported a losing presidential candidate).

When the candidate
unexpectedly wins the nomination, then even more unexpectedly wins the
presidential election, Jeff would be perfectly positioned to be appointed
Attorney General. In its aftermath, all of the elitists and insiders know
the biggest risk of this entire election cycle is for someone who wants to
clean the swamp to succeed at becoming President of the United States.

Going right along with
the plot, during his Senate Confirmation Hearings, Jeff would swear to remove
himself from any investigations involving charges made by the lying Democrats –
those whose candidate was so bad even they had a hard time stomaching
her. That will be a major part of the Democrat/Liberal legacy: the
2016 election campaign and all of the lies.

By recusing himself from
having anything having to do with the investigation of possible presidential
missteps involving Russia during the campaign, the Attorney General can avoid
providing badly-needed support for his President. He turns everything
over to the Assistant Attorney General who supports the FBI’s senior management
coup d’etat team.

My book plot would move
forward by having the AAG appointed to handle all matters related to the Russia
matter appoint a special prosecutor who is the best friend of
the former FBI Director the President fired. Surely this way they will be
able to cover up all of the covert and indelicate, unlawful behavior of senior
Bureau management members who are totally involved in trying to defeat the new
President? It is a devastating loss by the Democrat candidate whose power
supports their corruption. They are all sickened by her loss.
OMG! They might even get caught red-handed.

Little by little, however,
the new President finds ways to get the truth to the people. The Attorney
General looks ridiculous and incompetent, the Assistant Attorney General looks
like a naïve fool who no American wants running the nation’s law enforcement,
and all of the members of senior management look like traitors… including the
special prosecutor.

What a book plot!
What a legacy these fictional characters are leaving their nation! Are
they fictional you ask? Of course. They must be. No one could
be so oblivious to reality as these characters are.

As I said, only
individuals leave a legacy. When their individual stupidity and arrogance
enables the group’s objectives to depart from the group’s basic purpose for
being, their individual legacy suffers as does the group’s. The
rules are the same whether it’s the FBI, NOW, or the DNC. They will
forever be remembered for their treachery and lies. Mostly, they will be
remembered for disrespecting the American people and causing them to lose faith
in their public servants’ ability to handle the power they were given.
Once lost, trust is never regained.

It will take time, Mr.
President, for the people to forgive this grave violation of the public
trust. It will take time and tremendous dedication of those left to clean
up the mess.

As for total support for
law enforcement, as long as police departments and sheriff’s officers are
pulling over people for no apparent violation but are removing from them their
personal possessions (and never returning them without a court hearing which
may or may not be either affordable or constitutional), I will not subscribe to
your commitment to the thin blue line. Again, the AG’s office
should be taking action, but is not.

As the former editor of
the National Peace Officer’s Magazine, as a former police officer’s wife (and as a
former Denver police department employee), I say those words with great sorrow
but also with great respect for the rule of law so easily ignored by so many
cities, counties and states. It is unlawful and is a reflection of the
sewer that made those who believe senior managers at the FBI should make
political decisions on behalf of the American people.

Neither action is to be
tolerated in a nation of laws and justice. At the moment, we have
neither.

I could go on and on
about legacies left behind… the other one I will mention is feminism – which is
anything but representative of most American females. Their legacy will
be to declare that we must believe women who lie about sexual encounters
because women don’t lie about such things… not even 40 years later.

That’s an interesting
thought and it is being stated at the same time Los Angeles attorney Lisa Bloom
admits that the women who have charged the President of inappropriate behavior
towards them have been offered huge sums of money in return for their sudden
memories. It is rumored that Bloom’s law firm will take one-third of the
amounts paid to her clients by – we don’t know who. The amounts paid are,
according to news stories, in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. I
believe Bloom has denied much of this… I would, too — wouldn’t you?
That’s one woman I won’t believe.

That is the feminist
legacy. They forgot the charges made against the Duke lacrosse team in
2006. The North Carolina Attorney General said at the time: “The
Duke lacrosse case has shown that our society has lost sight of the most
fundamental principle of our legal system: the presumption of
innocence.” Some things don’t change and this is one of them.

We are to believe them
just because they are women. It tosses in the trash the rule of law
declaring that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, but feminists
don’t care. That’s part of their legacy: Ignorance of the law and
naiveté [perhaps gullibility is a better word].

Perhaps if female
morality was more apparent, you might convince me, but probably not. You
wear skirts up to your private parts (without telling men this is the new norm,
not an invitation to your bed… though that’s what it looks like to me), you
sleep with just about anyone from the time you get to high school, you don’t
understand that “choice” occurs at the moment you decide to have sex rather
than when you get pregnant and so believe the killing of a baby in your uterus
is an acceptable form of birth control… even through the ninth month.

Your group will not be
remembered for standing up for the rights of women. It will be remembered
for one of your leaders, a Hollywood elite, wanting to blow up the White
House. It will be remembered for murdering many of God’s most innocent
beings… babies in your own belly.

What you represent –
your legacy – is that of liberal Democrat women who have no moral
compass. That is your legacy… a group of individuals with no moral
compass.

Those are legacies.

And while you are thinking
about this, remember that you, too, dear reader will leave a legacy… one either
of meaning and positive purpose or of… what? Or, the groups you belong to
will leave a legacy for you.

Be careful whom you
support… it will be part of your legacy personally. And now you know why
I resigned from the Republican Party.

About Me

Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall began her career in 1956 as a journalist with the Wyoming Eagle in Cheyenne. During her 20 years (plus) as a banker and bank consultant, she wrote extensively for The American Banker, Bank Marketing Magazine, Trust Marketing Magazine, was U.S. Consulting Editor for Private Banker International (London/Dublin), and other major banking industry publications. Barnewall taught private banking at Colorado University and has authored seven banking books, one dog book, and two works of fiction and one biography.
Barnewall is the former editor of The National Peace Officer Magazine and has written editorials for the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News and Newsweek, etc. She has written for News With Views, World Net Daily, Canada Free Press, Christian Business Daily, Business Reform, and others. She has been quoted in Time, Forbes, Wall Street Journal and other national and international publications. She can be found in Who's Who in America (2005-10), Who's Who of American Women (2006-10), Who's Who in Finance and Business (2006-10), and Who's Who in the World (2008).